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The 2nd Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019

COLLECTIVE CITY

Cities are contested territories, by their very nature spaces of negotiation, of multiple and complex subjects, divergent rights, values, claims and conditions. To understand the city one needs to understand this contradictory nature and to recognize it as a physical and political construct complicit, in the right to housing, access to natural and social resources, transportation, political freedoms and social justice simultaneously pressured by the challenges of internal and global migration, climate change and increasing inequity.

The contemporary city operates as a speculative apparatus, shaped by the logic of efficiency and profit; public resources and spaces are increasingly being privatized and conceived of as commodities. Emerging models are based on a managerial model that privileges corporate and/or technocratic visions that undermine the collective nature of the city, and challenge both our political and environmental survival. In this process, architecture has become progressively marginalized from the city’s form and processes, increasingly relinquishing its disciplinary scope.

The urgent challenge is to develop new tools, methods and forms of intervention at multiple scales from the domestic to the territorial scale, from public space to infrastructural networks, from activism to institutional roles, redefining architecture’s disciplinary territories as a system of knowledge production and action. The Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale (SBAU) 2019 claims architecture as an active participant in the construction of the city and as an agent in realizing a political and cultural project for the city. SBAU 2019 aims to create a space of research and debate opened to and engaged with a truly global audience. The Biennale will explore the condition of the collective in the city, not as the natural state of the city today, but rather as a condition to be reclaimed and reframed, suggesting that the collective subject is in fact the instrument of political action and transformation of the city. This biennale is an incitement to demonstrate and evidence what collective space can mean, how we can imagine it as an agent of political action of both of social, spatial and environmental justice in order to speculate on the new city. It is a platform to grapple with essential and necessary disciplinary and cultural transformations that must take place to enable us to answer these challenges and to understand how new collective practices can be mapped, tested, innovated and leveraged to truly gain agency and relevancy.

With the city of Seoul as host, SBAU proposes to engage in this global dialogue with partners from multiple cities around the world to identify innovative forms of collectivity as both spatial constructs, forms of speculation and research, modes of governance and new social practices. It aims to map and explore emerging models of collaboration and city making at a global scale. SBAU aims to establish a continuity building on previous biennales by establishing research agendas and transformative strategies in the city to be taken over, debated, refused or reconsidered in future editions of SBAU.

SBAU 2021 General Director
Jaeyong Lim

Francisco Sanin

Overview

Event Name

2RD Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019
THEME

COLLECTIVE CITY : RECLAIMING THE CITY, REDEFINING ARCHITECTURE
PERIOD

2019. 9. 7. - 11. 10.
Public Programs

Dongdaemun Design Plaza(DDP), Donuimun Museum Village, Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, Sewoon Plaza, Seoul Museum of History etc.
Public Programs

Educational
Tour Program
Film & Video
City Architect Forum

General Director

Jaeyong Lim

Jae Y. Lim is a principal architect of OCA (Office of Contemporary Architecture). He is trying to understand the tendencies of social, economic and cultural changes and to reflect them in his architecture through new prototypes. This biennale is also an extension of the task of finding new prototypes of cities. He served as director of ‘Seoul: towards a Meta-city’ exhibition which was held at Aedes Gallery in 2014 and Korea-Japan Contemporary Architecture Exchange Exhibition in 2011 and 2012. Also he was a commissioner of UIA promotion Hall in 2011. He received his B. Arch degree from Seoul National University and M. Arch degree from the University of Michigan.

Francisco Sanin

Francisco Sanin is professor at Syracuse University. He has taught at Princeton University, Architectural association, Kingston University and KNUA (Korea). He maintains a professional practice with works in Asia, Europe and Latin America Sanin was co-commissioner of the Korean Pavilion for the 2008 Venice Biennale and the designer of the 2011 Gwangju Biennale 2011, and the curator for the Seoul City Architects Forum 2017.

Curatorial Team

THEMATIC EXHIBITION / Beth Hughes

Beth Hughes is the Head of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. Educated in Australia, she graduated from the University of Technology Sydney where she later taught. From 2004 - 2009 Beth was an Associate at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, (OMA ― Rem Koolhaas). In 2009 joined as partner at Point Supreme Architects in Athens, Greece and in 2011 established her own practice now based in London.
GLOBAL STUDIOS / Sanki Choe

Sanki Choe is a Professor and Director of Architecture Program at University of Seoul. He is a licensed architect leading SCA Design Lab and has practiced in New York, Cambridge, and Seoul. He graduated from Harvard and Yonsei University, taught at Northeastern University, and conducted research at UC Berkeley. He was awarded with the prestigious Seoul Architecture Prize and appointed as Public Architect by the Metropolitan Government of Seoul.
CITIES EXHIBITION / Yim Dongwoo, Rafael Luna

Yim Dongwoo / Yim is an assistant professor at Hongik University and co-founder of PRAUD, and received a master's degree at Harvard University. He is the author of Unprecedented Pyongyang, North Korean Atlas, and I Want to be METROPOLITAN, and the winner of the Architectural League Prize 2013. He is participating artist to the Korean Pavilion of 2014 Venice Biennale which won the Golden Lion, and was the curator of PyongYangSalLim in 2017 Seoul Biennale and Factory for Urban Living in 2018.

Rafael Luna / Luna is an assistant professor at Hanyang University and co-founder of the architecture firm PRAUD. He received a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luna's research focuses on infra-architectural hybrids as systems for urban efficiency, with essays on the subject published in MONU, IntAR Journal, Inner Magazine, and Studio Magazine. Luna is the award winner of the Architectural League Prize 2013, and his work has been exhibited at the MoMA, Venice Biennale, Seoul Biennale.
LIVE PROJECTS / Young Chul Jang

Young Chul Jang, AIA, received his Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley after received Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Hongik University in Korea. WISE Architecture led by Young Chul Jang and Sook Hee Chun. The two completed several meaningful projects focusing on ordinary materiality to create extra-ordinary Architecture. They have also participated in many architectural cross over activities such as planning and executing public art projects. They won Korean Young Architects Awards in 2011 and The Seoul City Architectural Prize and Korea Design Award 2015 with “Dialogue in the Dark, Bukchon”.
CURATORIAL TEAM

ASSOCIATE CURATORS Hyoeun Kim (Thematic), Yoobeen Kim (Cities), Minsun KangHeewon Lee (Global Studios), Aram You (Live Projects), Joo Seok Hong (Live Projects), Jooyeon Choi (Live Projects)
ASSISTANT CURATORS Livia Wang (Thematic), Isabel Ogden (Thematic), Jeffrey Kim (Thematic), Youngmin Choi (Global Studios)
COORDINATORS Heejung Hwang (Thematic), Tony Woonghee Cho (Cities)